Philip Graham

Practice Areas

Digital Assets & Blockchain

Funds & Asset Management

Family Office

Economic Substance in the British Virgin Islands

Environmental, Social & Governance

Private Equity

Regulatory & Tax

Career

Philip Graham is the global head of Harneys Digital Assets & Blockchain sector group and leads our Funds & Asset Management team in the BVI. He is an internationally recognised leading advisor on all aspects of offshore investment funds, including pre-formation strategy, regulatory compliance, and restructuring.

Phil has over 20 years of experience advising in connection with all types of fund vehicles, including hedge funds, venture funds, private equity funds, and hybrid structures, with a particular expertise in the crypto fund environment, having launched one of the very first digital asset focussed funds in 2015 and having been involved in over 300 since that point in time. He also has extensive economic substance and digital asset tokenisation knowledge and has co-hosted a series of informative podcasts on these and other subjects.

Phil serves as chairman of the BVI Investment Funds Association and has consulted frequently with the BVI government and the regulator on legislative development and the impact of regulatory change for over fifteen years. He is the senior editor of the Harneys Funds Hub and is invited to speak and publish regularly on topics including structuring offshore funds, jurisdictional analysis, blockchain, cryptocurrency, and regulatory matters such as economic substance, tax information exchange, and AML.